Art, Disobedience, And Ethics: The Adventure Of Pedagogy (education, Psychoanalysis, And Social Transformation)

This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge. Examining art practice in educational settings where emphasis is placed upon a pragmatics of the ‘suddenly possible’, Atkinson looks at the issues of ethics, aesthetics, and politics of learning and teaching. These learning encounters drive students beyond the security of established patterns of learning into new and modified modes of thinking, feeling, seeing, and making. Acknowledgements 6 Contents 7 List of Figures 9 Chapter 1: Introduction: The Pragmatics and Ethics of the Suddenly Possible 10 Process and Becoming 18 References 20 Chapter 2: Restoring Pedagogic Work to the Incipience and Immanence of Learning: Disobedient Pedagogies 21 Neo-liberal Agendas in Education: Privatisation and Marketisation 21 Restoring Pedagogic Work to the Incipience and Immanence of Learning 27 Art and Learning, Events of Becoming 29 Luca Painting 32 Rogue Game 34 Disjunctive Syntheses 37 The Force of Art, Poietic Materialism and Intra-action 38 Karen Barad, Intra-action and Intra-relation 39 What Kind of Pedagogies Do We Require That Can Respond to the Iterations of Becoming? 41 References 45 Chapter 3: Spinoza and the Challenge of Building a Life 46 Introduction 46 Benedict De Spinoza 48 The Three Kinds of Knowledge 51 Perfection, Appetite, and Virtue 61 References 64 Chapter 4: The Force of Art and Learning: Building a Life 65 References 69 Chapter 5: Whitehead ́s Adventure 70 Introduction 70 Actual Occasions, Societies, Prehension and Concrescence 77 Feeling and Becoming 79 Potential and Becoming 82 Propositions, Becoming and Creativity 83 Whitehead and Education 88 Assessment in Education 90 References 95 Chapter 6: Ethics and Politics in Pedagogic Work 96 Event and Encounter 96 Relevance and Obligation 101 Ethics and Politics of Learning Without Image: Pedagogy of Immanence 106 Ranciere, Emancipation and Learning 112 References 121 Chapter 7: Becoming in the Middle 123 Multiplicity 127 Transcendence and Immanence 129 Learning and the New 132 Ethics and Learning Events 136 Ideas and Problems 138 Events of Learning and Relations 139 Different/ciation and the Conditions of Real Learning 142 Experience 144 Minor, Sense and Machinic 145 References 156 Chapter 8: The Force of Art 158 Part One 158 The Event of Art 165 Antonio Negri and the Temporality of Kairos 167 Time and Kairos 168 Force of Art and Poietic Materialism 170 Part Two 173 The Force of Art, Disobedience, Virtual Ecologies 173 Ritornello (Refrain) and Territory 177 Ethico-Aesthetics and the Force of Art 185 Beginning: Edith and Johanna 189 References 193 Chapter 9: Pedagogy and Events of Disobedience 195 Ritornello 195 Disobedience as an Event 196 Expression and Difference 202 References 205 Chapter 10: Pedagogic Work: An Ethics of Building a Life 207 The Adventure of Concern 207 Ecology of Practices 215 Guattari ́s Three Ecologies 218 Guattari ́s Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm 220 Whitehead: A Creative and Fallible Ethics 222 Coda 226 References 227 Endnote 229 Index 232 Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction: The Pragmatics and Ethics of the Suddenly Possible (Dennis Atkinson)....Pages 1-11 Restoring Pedagogic Work to the Incipience and Immanence of Learning: Disobedient Pedagogies (Dennis Atkinson)....Pages 13-37 Spinoza and the Challenge of Building a Life (Dennis Atkinson)....Pages 39-57 The Force of Art and Learning: Building a Life (Dennis Atkinson)....Pages 59-63 Whitehead’s Adventure (Dennis Atkinson)....Pages 65-90 Ethics and Politics in Pedagogic Work (Dennis Atkinson)....Pages 91-117 Becoming in the Middle (Dennis Atkinson)....Pages 119-153 The Force of Art (Dennis Atkinson)....Pages 155-191 Pedagogy and Events of Disobedience (Dennis Atkinson)....Pages 193-204 Pedagogic Work: An Ethics of Building a Life (Dennis Atkinson)....Pages 205-226 Back Matter ....Pages 227-236 Annotation This text explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge. Examining art practice in educational settings where emphasis is placed upon a pragmatics of the 'suddenly possible', Atkinson looks at the issues of ethics, aesthetics, and politics of learning and teaching. These learning encounters drive students beyond the security of established patterns of learning into new and modified modes of thinking, feeling, seeing, and making